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>>28980958 (OP)
Assuming you add oil periodically.
1ZZfe love to burn oil.
Even the later ones with piston revisions burn oil.
Every dead 98-02 Rolla was killed by oil starvation since normal fags never check oil.
.t owned a 2000 5 speed that ran past 305,000+ miles and still got 40MPG

>>28980958 (OP)
So does my bike but I don't brag about it.

>>28980966
>Every dead 98-02 Rolla was killed by oil starvation
Lies. My sister's was killed by rust.

>>28980966
yeah because retards would neglect oil changes and the holes would sludge/clog easily.

>>28980979
Just like your mom's holes.

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>>28980975
>My sister was killed by rust.

thats what i read twice before realising

>>28980979
You're not clogging anything, they just run low on oil; because they burn about a quart every 5,000 mi or so.
They're really bad ones burn a quart every 2,000 miles

retards dont do regular maintenance though. soon these cars will be all but extinct and people will make threads wondering where did they go?

>>28980958 (OP)
A neighbour dailys the previous generation.
It's tidy too.

>>28980958 (OP)
Until the parts run dry.

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>>28980958 (OP)
They're also not that readily available anymore.

If you want a cockroach car that doesn't drink oil and will somehow last forever, look no further than the Mazda 5. It fits in the same compact spaces the Corolla does, but has a ton of cargo space. It can't be beat on practicality alone. Fuel economy is not as good but this car easily competes with midsize SUVs and even minivans if you don't remove the 2nd row at all. Only real weakness is that they tend to eat sway bar links every 60k and control arms every 150k.

>>28980958 (OP)
when I lived in Texas I had the Geo prizm variation. It only went up to 35 MPH but it still ran

>>28980966
These cars are such pieces of shit its incredible how they get away with being so overrated for so long

>>28980966
The later ones do not burn oil

>>28981527
These things are awesome. so much room and they also get good mpg. Also pretty sporty for a minivan

>>28981576
Based on my experience, they are very very solid cars.
Although they are used to fuck at this point.

>>28981584
Later 1ZZFE still burn oil, just a bit less.
They all do it

i have one with 210k miles and burns about a quart every 1k miles. i've ran 1.8k miles on restore and protect on it, doesn't seem to be improving thangs, maybe it needs more miles on it?

if i cant fix that issue then i think i'll just straight pipe it because it already killed 2 cats.

>>28981527
These things rust like fuck
>t leaf

>>28981657
Do a Piston soak with B12 cleaner.
Does wonders to clean up old oil burners

>>28981673
>These things rust like fuck
Mazda has never been great with rust. I keep rust converter, spray paint, and also clear anti-vandal vinyl overlay on the weak points. I'm very fastidious with powertrain and body maintenance because I know these are risk factors within my control to mitigate.

I've never had a Mazda rust on me even in Michigan, where car rot is ubiquitous on old cars because I attack rust the moment I spot it. Only time I've lost mine was because of a rear-end collision from a distracted driver. It even had The Tape on it, but even retroreflective SOLAS tape doesn't work if the driver isn't looking at the road.

i have a 1997 stickshift one.

>>28981628
>These things are awesome. so much room and they also get good mpg.
They're compact car sized but they carry like a car over 2x its size. They're mysteriously resistant to the social media clout tax that has plagued Hondas, Toyotas, Scions, and the various badge-engineered variants that are no longer the "savvy shopper's secret" since everyone seems to know that a Pontiac Vibe is just a Toyota Matrix.

As for mpg, pretty much identical to a 2.5L Mazda 3 of similar generation. Only a couple hundred pounds heavier. The 2.5L MZR is a big, stupid engine that makes reasonable naturally-aspirated power.

I would caveat to not get the manual, despite the manual enthusiasts screeching for one (and never buying it), because parts are actually hard to get compared to the FS5A-series transaxle, which is a brand-wide parts bin special, which fits in everything from a small car to their full size cars.

>>28981654
Why does the 2zz not burn oil

>>28981820
Different engine.
Also 2zz cars were also driven way way less than their 1zz counterparts.

>>28980958 (OP)
>GUYZ THIS SHITBOX APPLIANCE CAN LIVE FOREVER
>GUYZ YOU CAN ETERANALLY LOOK LIKE A RETARDED POORFAG WORKING HIS MCJOB IN THIS BORING ASS APPLIANCE. FOREVER!
okay who the fuck cares? I buy a new car every 3-5 years, and way more interesting than that fwd pile of shit. stay poor. stay brown.

>>28981820
It definitely still burns oil even more, especially at high RPMs which is the only place the 2zz does anything

>>28981673
>>28981793
>Mazda has never been great with rust
Yeah, Mazda's been among the worst when it comes to that. In Finland, older Mazdas commonly fail inspection and are scrapped because the body rust is so bad the structure is compromised. I think at least in some older models, their only rust protection was a thin layer of cold galvanizing zinc paint. Not enough for these conditions.
Toyotas seem to be a little better, and while they may have a little rust building somewhere on the body (the subframe and the suspension arms always look like shit), they're not nearly as likely to be found un-roadworthy for that.

Some Audis have enough zinc in the body that 20 year old cars might have just barely started to rust if the owner's completely neglected the thing.